Dust-pan



(No Model.)

N. T. POLSOM.

DUST PAN.

N0. 329,382. v Patented Oct. 27, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEHEMIAH T. FOLSOM, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

DUST-PAN.

BPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,382, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed September 29, 1884. Serial No. 144,254. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEHEMIAH T. FoLsoM, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Dust-Pans, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object toimprove the construction of the forward edges of dustpans, so that said edges will be practically inflexible and not liable to be indented or distorted by the usage to which dustpans are ordinarily subjected.

The invention consists in a dust-pan having its forward edge stiffened by a metal strip or strips applied to the body ofthe pan, the sheet metal forming the body of the pan being turned up a little near the front edge, and then inclined forward and downward, forming a protuberance, and the space beneath the same being filled with a rigid piece, which extends forward of the body portion and is reduced to a thin edge at front.

In the drawing the figure is a longitudinal sectional view of the body of a dust-pan with my improved strengthening-piece applied.

a indicates the body or main portion of the pan, which has a ridge or protuberance formed near the front edge thereof by the turning up of the thin sheet metal of which the pan-body is composed.

b indicates the forward edge of the strengthening-piece, s, which is nearly triangular in cross-section and comes to a thin edge at the front. This piece 8 is preferably of steel,aud is firmly secured to the under surface of the pan-body a,and the front edge, extending forward of that of the pan-body,forms the wearing-edge of the dust-pan. The thick part of the re-enforce piece 8 fills the space under the protuberance 0 of the pan-body. The protuberance c is thus held against collapse when Weight falls upon the front portion of the pan.

\Vhat I claim is Adust-pan having its main body portion composed of the usual thin material and hav ing a protuberance or rib near the front edge thereof, extending across the pan, and a rigid piece filling the space beneath said protuberance, extending forward of the body of the pan proper to a thin edge, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence oftwosubscribing witnesses, this 19th day ofSeptember, 1884.

NEHEMIAH T. FOLSOM.

\Vitnesses:

O. F. BROWN, H. BROWN. 

